龠

龠 U+9FA0, 龠 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9FA0 ← 龟 [U+9F9F] CJK Unified Ideographs 龡 → [U+9FA1]

⿕ U+2FD5, ⿕ KANGXI RADICAL FLUTE [unassigned: U+2FD6–U+2FEF] ← ⿔ [U+2FD4] Kangxi Radicals ⿰ → [U+2FF0]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

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Radical 214 龠

龠 (Kangxi radical 214, 龠+0, 17 strokes, cangjie input 人一口月 (OMRB), four-corner 8022₇, composition ⿳亼𠱠𠕁)

1. Kangxi radical #214, ⿕.
2. Shuowen Jiezi radical №43

Derived characters

• Appendix:Chinese radical/龠
• 㒢, 𢅹, 瀹, 𨙄, 𭨑, 爚, 禴, 𥌺, 𥤉, 𧟇, 𦇬, 𧕋, 讑, 𧹊, 䟑, 䠯, 鑰, 𬰾, 𮪟, 𮯘
• 𭄜, 𬱳, 鸙, 蘥, 𭨣, 籥, 𨷲(𨸎), 㿜

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1538, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 48882
• Dae Jaweon: page 2080, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4807, character 1
• Unihan data for U+9FA0

Chinese

simp. and trad.		龠
alternative forms		𠎤

Wikipedia has articles on:

• 龠部 (Written Standard Chinese^?)
• Radical 214 (English)

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 龠
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

	Old Chinese
讑	*lowɢs
籲	*los
爚	*hljowɢ, *lowɢ
禴	*lowɢ
蘥	*lowɢ
鑰	*lowɢ
瀹	*lowɢ
龠	*lowɢ
籥	*lowɢ
鸙	*lowɢ

Characters in the same phonetic series (龠) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

Pictogram (象形) – a bamboo Pan flute in which two mouths (吅) perhaps indicate the round top of the bamboo pipes. In the bronze inscriptions, 亼 (a flipped 口) was added on top to show a mouth playing the instrument.

Shuowen interprets it as an ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 品 + 侖, however his analysis does not match the original appearence. The bottom component is identical but unrelated to 冊 since it originally represents bamboo slips. The whole character is similar but unrelated to 侖.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character	龠
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	藥 (107)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	以灼切
Baxter	yak
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jɨɐk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/jiɐk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/iɑk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/jɨak̚/
Li Rong	/iak̚/
Wang Li	/jĭak̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/i̯ak̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yuè
Expected Cantonese Reflex	joek6

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	龠
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yuè
Middle Chinese	‹ yak ›
Old Chinese	/*lewk/
English	flute; key; tube
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	龠
Reading #	1/1
No.	16350
Phonetic component	龠
Rime group	藥
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	藥
Old Chinese	/*lowɢ/

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yuè (yue⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩㄝˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): joek⁶
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): yok
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): io̍k / ia̍k

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yuè
    • Zhuyin: ㄩㄝˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yuè
    • Wade–Giles: yüeh⁴
    • Yale: ywè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yueh
    • Palladius: юэ (jue)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɥɛ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: joek⁶
    • Yale: yeuhk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: joek⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: yêg⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jœːk̚²/
• Hakka
  • (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yok
    • Hakka Romanization System: iog^ˋ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: yog⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /i̯ok̚²/
  • (Southern Sixian, incl. Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yok
    • Hakka Romanization System: (r)iog^ˋ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: yog⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /(j)i̯ok̚²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: io̍k
    • Tâi-lô: io̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: iok
    • IPA (Xiamen): /iɔk̚⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /iɔk̚²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ia̍k
    • Tâi-lô: ia̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: iak
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /iak̚¹²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: yak

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*lewk/

  (Zhengzhang): /*lowɢ/

Definitions

龠

1. yue (a Chinese musical instrument consisting of a bamboo tube that has three or other numbers of holes)
2. (historical) yue (an ancient Chinese unit of volume notionally equivalent to the space occupied by 1200 millet seeds)

Synonyms

• 籥

Japanese

Kanji

See also:

Category:Japanese terms spelled with 龠

龠

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. flute

Readings

• Go-on: やく (yaku)
• Kan-on: やく (yaku)
• Kun: ふえ (fue, 龠)

Compounds

Compounds

• 一龠(いちやく) (ichiyaku, “a unit of volume equal to 1,200 millet grains”)

Korean

Hanja

龠 • (yak) (hangeul 약, revised yak, McCune–Reischauer yak, Yale yak)

1. flute

Vietnamese

Han character

龠: Hán Nôm readings: dược, thược

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References

• Nom Foundation